Thursday, May 04, 2006

The Devil You Know (Part One)

They're whispering his namethrough this disappearing landBut hidden in his coatis a red right hand - Nick Cave

Nineteen-year old Italian Benjamino Evangelista emigrated to the US in 1904 and changed his name to Benny Evangelist. Two years later he began having ecstatic visions - "my own views and signs," he said, "that I see from 12 to 3 AM" - and they lasted for 20 years. He wrote it down in one of America's many "received" books, which he titled The Oldest History of the World Discovered by Occult Science in Detroit, Michigan. The first volume, self-published in 1926 and out-of-print until September, 2001, left the history at the time of Noah.

It was the only volume Evangelist lived to complete. On the morning of July 3, 1929, he was discovered slumped in the chair of his home office, his severed head at his feet and the floor littered with copies of The Oldest History in the World. Upstairs, his wife Santina was found hanging across the bed, only sinews connecting her head and neck, and clutching in one hand their murdered 18-month old son Mario. In another room lay the butchered remains of their three other children, Angelina, Margaret and Eugenis, ages seven, five and four.

The Detroit Free Press of July 5, 1929 ran a story headlined "Massacre of 6 in Cult Family Baffles Police":

Evangelist was a man of mystifying history on the religious side of his life. More than 20 years ago he founded the "Union Federation of America," a weird religious theory in his own somewhat warped mind, and, having been "appointed by God," he wrote the "bible" of that faith.

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Several pieces of women's undergarments, each tagged with the name of its owner, police point out, reveal that the so-called mystic indulged in practices of "voodoosim," or devil worship. Such garments, "voodooism" has it, can lead to the finding of a missing person, when they are properly handled by one versed in the mystic arts of that belief.

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"Evangelist, no doubt, was insane," Father [Francis] Beccheniu said [who was to bury the family the following Saturday], "Of that I am sure, although he was shrewd and seemed to have quite a lot of intelligence in other matters. Mrs. Evangelist was more of a fanatic than her husband on the subject of religion, and she did not display the intelligence revealed by him. "I do not believe Evangelist was sincere in practicing the creed he had established. Rather, I believe he founded the mysterious cult with all of its weird props and practices, with the sole idea of making money."

The previous day's breaking story of the murders adds colour regarding Evangelist's cult:Eight or ten wax figures, each hideous and grotesque to the extreme, and each presumably representing one of the "celestial planets," were suspended on the altar in a circle by wires from the ceiling. Among them was a huge eye, electrically lighted from the inside, which Evangelist referred to in his bible as "the sun."

The walls and ceiling of this "religious sanctum" were lined with light green cloth, which bulged out in places like the walls of a padded cell. In a window of the basement, which was on a line with and visible from St. Aubin avenue, a large card bore the words: "Great Celestial Planet Exhibition."

Evangelist and his family undoubtedly were killed while the "prophet" was in his office after having "read the signs" from the celestial bodies, for his bible states that he "saw them from 12 to 3 a. m."

It was the worst mass murder in Detroit's history. Theft was not a motive; valuables were untouched. And it remains unsolved today.

What's the point of rehashing such a tragic though long-cold case? The trance-like authorship of the text, the occult aspect of the crime, the media's inadequacies, the singular brutality, "baffled" police and the impotence of justice: it's America. It always has been America.

Another cold case, this from Sonoma California, but only 20 months old: "Tantalizing clues in pair's slaying" read the headline in yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle. Sheriffs have released evidence - a sign of some desperation - from the murder scene of a young engaged couple killed camping on a beach in hope of comparing "our evidence to people's suspicions," says Lt. Dave Edmonds. The evidence includes pictures of devil faces carved or burned in nearby driftwood and enigmatic journal pages in several different hands mentioning leprechauns and the toothfairy and containing text like, "At the Driftwood Inn, alone again, outside of myself and placid as hell."

The two murder victims were shot in the head, likely at close range while they slept. There was no sign of a robbery: "None of the couple's belongings, including Christian literature and camping gear, had been disturbed." Reverend Chris Cutshall, father of victim Lindsay, age 22, says "We have no idea at this stage whether these drawings have anything to do with the case. But we believe their deaths were satanically motivated anyway. These were great kids who were serving the Lord, and they didn't have any enemies other than the evil one."

It's easy to discount such remarks as simply a grieving father finding consolation and meaning in setting his religious template upon his daughter's mysterious death. American evangelicals seem to invite such discounting. And that so many seem to want there to be a vast satanic conspiracy, as though one provides an inverted confirmation of the sureity of their own faith, makes it easy for those who wish to do so to dismiss allegations of ritual abuse and occult crime as the product of religious hysteria, confusion and ignorance. But the unsolved murders in Sonoma remind me of the still unsolved 1974 murder of student Arlis Perry, found stabbed in a Stanford sanctuary with a tall candle in her vagina and another between her breasts, which in turn recalls the 1980 killing of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl in a hospital chapel, an inverted cross stabbed into her torso, for which Father Gerald Robinson is at last standing trial. (In an interview with the prosecution, "Robinson said he was stunned when he walked into the sacristy and [fellow hospital chaplain Rev. Jerome] Swiatecki turned around and said, 'Why did you do this?' Robinson said he did not know why the other priest pointed the finger at him.") Also, the Sonoma murders were cited by Richard Hamlin in his recent trial, referring to the satanic rituals he claims wife Susan described to him. Many took place, he said, on Goat Rock, close to the murder scene.

It's very late and I haven't actually reached the point of this post. But I'm too tired to make much sense to carry on right now, so I'm afraid I'll need to wrap this up later.

88 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Anonymous One,"But the eating-filled him with white light" these soul sucken vampires know what they are doing.Even if you don't belive there is power to be had from Magick,it doesn't change a thing.I have watched from a distance for many years,the acts of these shadow people.The powers they try to control are not to be fooled with,soon we will all be witness to their final plans,later.

I don't Know if this has anything to do with this post,but in one of the related articles from the Detroit freepress,at the time of the slayings they quote a fellow named Clark Robson.Their was family named robson that were killed in goodhart michigan,in 1967 or 68 still unsolved.Kinda weird.

IMHO, that's far too often overlooked or ignored. Things are proceeding as they always have. The workings of the gears can be a fascinating and lifelong study, but their spinning portends no more (and no less) today than it did in previous ages.

And I appreciate the article. I'd never heard of Benny Evangelist, although the 20s were rife with such characters. I'll have to read more about him.

All Hail Colbert! Have such deafening blows ever been reigned down upon the face of power in such proximity? Perhaps never before in modern history has a man gotten so close to the devil and laughed in his face. If only one could stand at a bank of computers and order an army of Colberts into battle; the republic might be saved by an arsenal of WMV's.

Jeff, thanks to you and Dave McGowan, I am always suspicious of deeper darker motives in any half-way mysterious murder.

As to Colbert, here is another good take on him-

All comedy is based on revealing a truth, sometimes so minor as to seem inconsequential, but a generally unobserved truth nonetheless. Sometimes the truth is a monstrous truth -- and many times comics shy away from that monstrous truth, unwilling to deal with the fallout from being its bearer. But the ones who embrace that mission -- Bruce, Carlin, Richard goddam Pryor, Bill Hicks ("Your child is not special", jesus the stones that took) -- they transcend.

One of the insanely annoying phrases lefties overuse is "Speaking truth to power." Well, kids, you know what? Standing three feet from the most powerful man in the world and poking fun at his public foibles, telling your audience that they are cowards by doing nothing more than pointing out the truth of their actions -- THAT'S speaking truth to power. Mutter to yourselves all you want, civilians. Colbert, that night, became one of the stories comics will trade for literally decades to come. Young comics will learn it from old comics. Audiences come and go. We honor our own.

When considering those behind ritual murders, several related ideas spring into my head: First, the importation of human body parts in Florida, Louisiana, and the Gulf region for use in Voudoun ceremonies and those of African native religions. There have been a spate of dismembered children found in London around the Thames, and I've read that police theorize that their body parts are being sold on the black market for use in African religious ceremonies.

I also think about the murder of Propaganda Due, or the P2 conspiracy, in which the Vatican bank was tied to many prominent Italian politicians including outgoing President Burlesconi, businessmen, and possibly some organized crime. There are also alleged ties to NATO and intelligence work. Propaganda Due is described as a renegade Masonic lodge. The thing was outed when banker Roberto Calvi was found murdered in London, hanging over the Thames, reportedly with bricks in his pockets and at low tide, if I recall correctly, which are tied to Masonic ritual killings. There's something about the tongue being cut out and the throat slashed, if memory serves. I have no firsthand knowledge of this. There was a trial last year. Why it took 23 (!) years is outside my knowledge. The P2 story ties the mob to US intelligence, NATO and the military, drug trafficking, Italian politics, and the Vatican Bank. Implicitly, Iran-Contra springs to mind, as some South Americans (Argentinians--Odessa connection, perhaps?) also were supposedly involved in P2.

Somebody remarked to me once that anti-semitic euphemisms referring to "the bankers" and similar terms are a convenient cover for the one religion that has an associated bank, if you do not include England's state religion and their national bank or any other state with an "official religion." Is it odd that websites called "Mason watch" pop up on google searches as well as things like "Jew Watch?"

Rewind to upstate New York in the early 19th century, when Captain William Morgan disappeared after threatening to publish Masonic secrets, supposedly a violation of the Masonic oath of secrecy. This event gave rise to the Anti-Masonic Party, sometimes called the most influential third party in American history. I do not think there is any evidence indicating that Morgan was necessarily murdered, particularly by Masons--only unsubstantiated claims connect the two. There are also historical connections to Mormonism, which appeared in the same area of New York State in the period of 1820 through 1830. Historical sources state that Mormonism is heavily influenced by masonic ritual.

Speaking of fringe "religious" groups, it's not hard to find stories of mysterious deaths on L Ron Hubbard's yacht or of unwarranted seizure in the Scientology facility near Hemet called "Gold."

We can see how ritual killings and allegations of them tie into politics and the shaping of society. They capture the public interest and imagination--everybody wants to know what happened, whodunnit, and why. Our curiousity creates a void, and we become vulnerable to believe whatever is offered to fill it.

So what's behind all this? I don't have the slightest idea--that's why I'm reading Mr. Wells blog! People should note that there are multiple orders in masonry, so blaming masonry for devious dark practices is most likely just as much an overgeneralization as blaming any group for actions by a subgroup, such as condemning American citizens because of abuses of power by the president or an intelligence organization.

Seems likely to me that there are parallel groups doing similar things because of similarities in human psychology and human interests. We fear the unknown and are driven by morbid curiousity and religious dogmas just as the supporters of the anti-masonic party were. Things change, but not all that much.

I'm in the process of reading George P. Hansen's The Trickster and the Paranormal, and if you accept his premise that psi is real, then traversing boundaries through deviant ritual can apparently unleash it. If this belief is not limited to one particular group, then we will see more than one group carrying out similar activities to achieve similar purposes--perhaps trying to harness psi for the sake of power, money, influence, and the regular gamut of human interests. Maybe they're just trying to frighten adherents or carry out a "thrill kill" in the guise of religious ritual. Maybe there is no "they."

Interesting you publish this on Beltane´s week. Beltane means Bel´s fire. Bel is the celtic god of fire, their Lucifer, their Prometeus. The original Beltane celebration included human sacrifices. Remember what happened on 2004´s Beltane in Iraq? See:

http://www.goroadachi.com/etemenanki/archive-2004d.htm

Interesting that Berlusconi resigned this week, but more interesting will be the end of the week. Some one even bigger could be sacrificed...

I know that because all the rumour mongers and angry myth makers say it is so, and I believe them, and I for one feel a whole lot better for it...course it will still really smart to be shot in the head while your hands are tied behind your back with coalition plastic restraints, ...and dead bodies still continue to show up on beaches here and around the world.

A white jet, the size of a commercial airliner, flew over Vancouver, BC (at 20,000 feet?) 5 times yesterday leaving behind the same solid white plumes of .. something. It wasn't like normal contrails. The sky was beautifully clear and no other jets were leaving contrails. Four very clearly defined streams of this smoke or whatever could be seen coming from the wings nearer to the planes' body.

The jet flew five parallel but offset flights from northeast to southwest over the city and presumably out over Georgia Straight (my 8th floor office looks north).

I saw it flying back northeast without the plume once, I guess circling back for another run. The last flight I saw, I also noticed a second jet with the same type of plume on a parallel course.

I also saw a jet fly over Vancouver airspace yesterday at about 4:15 PM, heading north to south and leaving a contrail. I'm aware of the contrail/chemtrail theories and, while I don't necessarily believe in them just yet, I kept my eye on the contrail that this plane made. It did not turn into a cloud pattern and dissolved within 10 minutes after being initially formed. Otherwise it was a clear, blue sky above Vancouver yesterday.

Did you actually see the *same* plane turn around and fly over Vancouver again, or is there the possibility that it was a different plane?

Also of interest regarding chemtrails, there was a recent NOVA program that examined the effect of natural contrails airplanes leave behind in their wake, and the lack of contrails in the days following 9/11. Turns out that the clouds that are formed because of plane contrails may be have significantly helping towards blocking harmful radiation to Earth, and if they were to disappate or planes were not to fly, the Earth would absorb more radiation from the sun and also disappate more heat at night, cooling the planet much more further. In effect, the contrails may be curbing the effects of ozone depletion and greenhouse effects, which means that the planet may be worse off without airplanes and artificially created cloud cover.

Jeff, I know this is on a side tangent to your article today and I apologize. I'm a recent discoverer of your blog and I'm finding it a wealth of information. It puts other counter-culture and avant guard websites out there (like Above Top Secret) to shame. Keep up the great work.

An eariler poster quoted a NOVA program to this effect: "Turns out that the clouds that are formed because of plane contrails may be have significantly helping towards blocking harmful radiation to Earth."

I didn't see the NOVA program. If the program was saying, or (more likely) subtly implying, that there's a natural process by which ordinary carbon-dioxide plane contrails morph into ordinary water-vapor clouds, I believe that to have been deliberate disinformation on the part of whoever wrote the NOVA script.

I'm 55. When I was growing up, all trails left in the sky by high-flying planes were narrow, straight, and silvery-colored, and they always dissipated in a few minutes, NEVER EVER spreading out into a cloudy or hazy mass.

Today there still are jet airplane trails that behave like that.

But now, there also exists a totally different type of trail which I will call "Type B." These trails are wider and puffier to begin with, and don't have the feeling of being perfectly-shaped lines or arcs--they're more wavering. And they're not silvery, they're more of a dull whitish color. And, most important, these "Type B" contrails (unlike the old-fashioned carbon-dioxide ones) DO expand into a pale, whitish, murky haze that stays in the air for hours.

And the planes that leave these "Type B" trails don't just fly over one time, like an ordinary long-distance jet flight as seen from the ground. They go slowly back and forth, with each pass taking many minutes to complete. For this reason, it's obvious that the "Type B" trails, and the resulting sky-haze, are not the product of ordinary passenger jet traffic, at all.

So, THAT is what people mean by "chemtrails." I see this taking place, through the window of the office where I work (San Francisco). I have seen this probably four or five times in the last month, and many times in the last year. It's no rarity. However, I never saw any of these "Type B" trails earlier than, let's say, several years ago. It's still a rather new thing, at least in my experience.

I don't know what these "Type B" trails are made of, or why they're being sprayed up there, or who's doing the spraying. I am, however, 100% sure that these are ENTIRELY DIFFERENT from ordinary CO2 jet-airplane trails. It sounds to me like the NOVA program was deliberately confusing people about this, by stealthily (and falsely) implying that there's some natural process whereby ordinary CO2 contrails become ordinary water-vapor clouds, and that this harmless and possibly even benign process is what people are seeing when they report "chemtrails."

Hungarian builders who drank their way to the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got a nasty surprise when a pickled corpse tumbled out of the empty barrel, a police magazine website reported.

According to online magazine www.zsaru.hu, workers in Szeged in the south of Hungary tried to move the barrel after they had drained it, only to find it was surprisingly heavy and were shocked when the body of a naked man fell out.

The website said that the body of the man had been shipped back from Jamaica 20 years ago by his wife in the barrel of rum in order to avoid the cost and paperwork of an official return.

According to the website, workers said the rum in the 300-liter barrel had a "special taste" so they even decanted a few bottles of the liquor to take home.

On the topic of chemtrails: I've read a lot of theories about the phenomenon (many of them here) but I'm not convinced that they are anything sinister or out of the ordinary (at least, more sinister than usual).

For example, go to local.live.com, type in a location in a major city, and then click "bird's-eye view". Where did all these images come from? Probably a plane flying slowly in a mysterious grid pattern. And if the plane is flying more slowly than usual, might it produce contrails with different properties than a passenger plane?

Now, as to what those "birds-eye view" photos are really for... probably the usual totalitarian monitoring of every square inch of settled territory. Certainly not just for bored net-surfers to amuse themselves with...

Weird. I read your post this morning before work and thought quite a bit about what you wrote. This afternoon, I checked the May Day Mystery web site to see if the latest May 1st announcement had been posted, and it had. The text includes the words "ritual killers"! (It could easily be part of the encryption and have no meaning beyond that.)http://www.maydaymystery.org/mayday/texts/06-may1.html

Chemtrails aren't contrails, i'll second everything Anon.5:49 said. Here they're less regular than they used to be (1-4yrs ago), more patchy and higher, making for spreading bands, hazes, and oily sun halo's more than blankets of 'cloud'. I've been watching clouds since i was 10, no firm views on who, what, or why, but contrails they're not.

"On the topic of chemtrails: I've read a lot of theories about thephenomenon (many of them here) but I'm not convinced that they areanything sinister or out of the ordinary (at least, more sinister than usual)."

Out of the ordinary they certainly are not, because they're happening so often. And right up in the fricken sky, right in front of 286,000,000 pairs of eyes, and that's just counting the eyes in the US. And this spraying is happening day in, day out. So, in the most basic sense of the word "ordinary," that's exactly what it is!

So here we have an "ordinary" program, using jet planes (demonstrably NOT commercial air flights), and these planes very frequently fly in big cross-hatch patterns and other formations, in many different locations, during which they discharge SOMETHING into the air which forms trails,and these trail behave totally differently from regular CO2 jet trails, and therefore they ARE some other substance.

What the substance may be, however, we are left to wonder, because there is NO official information available about the program, from the prople running it. We don't even know WHO THOSE PEOPLE ARE---the pilots and their program directors who are spraying so much unknown (unknown to us, not to them!) material into the atmosphere that it sometimes forms a cloudlike layer.

There is also NO verifiable information available about the program in the media.

Whether the program is technically "successful" or not, who can say, because there's no public knowledge of the purpose of the program.

However, from the perspective of propaganda, or mind control, or (to give it a more neutral name) "reality management," this aerial spraying program appears, so far, to be a powerful winner.

Without ONE WORD that I'm aware of being placed in any media, except perhaps that NOVA program referred to in earlier posts, this spraying program, by its nature and by its very existence, establishes the following premise, about life in our current human planetary community:

A program so pervasive and so obvious that it's visible to EVERY PERSON who looks up in the sky, and which operates at a level of importance where it's altering the envirnoment, changing the composition of the very air we breathe, can be carried out---because in fact it IS BEING carried out---with NO public accountability, and without even ANY acknoledgment that the program even exists.

This is a mindfuck, and so far a successful one. It's like a daddy who fucks his children without ever saying a word, and while acting as if no such thing is even happening.

For the people who want the control of human politics to become completely decoupled from all possiblity of democratic influence, and who want DEPENDABLE, UNANIMOUS SILENCE from both government and media, regarding secretly-designed, far-reaching alterations in global human life, this spraying program has to be chalked up as a big success.

Technically, who knows if it's successful? Maybe even they don't care, because from a power point of view, the mindfuck is the main point.

Living out here in Northern California I can assure you beyond a shadow of a doubt that chemtrails/vapor trails/sky trails or whatever you want to call them are being used to manipulate the weather (along with HAARP)and create an 'earth shield'.

We had extreme flooding this winter season. Whenever the natural clouds parted the trails could be seen beyond and above the clouds - cloud-seeding was taking place, essentially. "They" wanted to create as much rainfall as possible, fill the lakes and rivers and protect the snowpack. I thought it might be clever to have someone sue the federal government for their uninsured flood damage. I still have friends who say, "those are just vapor trails left behind by the passenger planes flying between Sacramento and Seattle"...Duh.

I have a photo taken in Utah in 1994 that shows such trails in the sky. Regulatory legislation regarding weather modification is making it's way through the congress at this time. Another interesting aspect of this phenomenon is the lovely white sky at dawn and dusk.

On the subject of satanism, I live in the town where Susan Polk's trial is taking place. The murder of her attorney's wife (Pamela Horowitz)and the "symbol" carved into her back took place just down the road. I walk the open spaces around town and come upon pagan-like markings in the woods. Witches covens? satanic rituals? goddess worshipping?

It's all essentially in my back yard and right overhead. Do we learn about it in the news or on the weather report? Not on your life. The boy who "carved" the symbol in the woman's back just killed her over some pot growing equipment he'd paid for with her stolen credit card. All very tidy. And poor Susan Polk. She appears to be crazier than a loon. Susan is defending herself now. Her son hollered out from the witness stand while she cross-examined him, "You're cuckoo for CoCo Puffs!" Years of brainwashing by her dead husband, starting when she was his teenaged therapy patient, probably has something to do with her zaniness.

this chemtrail thread is giving me the creeps. I live in Seattle, and this week end, we had unusually clear, lovely weather, and Monday, I DID see plenty of high flying aircraft, and plenty of trails, that spread out into a hazy, murky film, leaving an oily halo around the sun. I shrugged, though I've heard about those infamous chemtrails.

Both my roommate and I reported feeling unusually "fuzzy" that day, it was apparent because we had felt so good in the sunshine of the week end.

Hi, that anon fellow from Vancouver posting again with a link to the NOVA show about the contrail/weather connection:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/contrail.html

The program was called "Dimming the Sun".

Again, I would like to say that I am versed in the chemtrail (not the CONtrail) conspiracy theory and I have not found sufficient evidence that there is a clandestine program going on and someone is seeding our skies with a foreign substance released by high altitude airplanes. Why hasn't there been any residue collected of this alleged chemical?

There are thousands of airplanes flying across the skies of North America each day. (look at this satellite image of the SE US taken in 2004: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/cont-02.html. See all those straight lines?) Airplane exhaust can leave contrails in the sky if the temperture and the humidity is just right. There doesn't have to be some kind of sinister chemical compound added to it for a contrail to form, and then to become a widely dispersed cloud pattern.

What I'm trying to get at is that, for all the talk of conspiracy theory behind the chemtrail advocates, the evidence I've seen doesn't add up to some kind of clandestine program being executed right above our noses. In fact, the evidence that the NOVA program presented said that the growing amount of commercial airplane flights over the past few decades may have been helping to reduce global warming effects. Climate data observed in the 3 days following September 11, 2001 (when no commercial airline traffic was flying over America) showed a marked difference between overnight and daytime temperatures when compared to the same dates years earlier -- in the daytime it was warmer, with less cloud cover, and nights got far more colder. Our airline traffic may have slanted the true effect that global warming has had on the planet, and if that theory is true, ironically the manmade contrails are helping stave off some of the negative effects of global warming.

I try to be objective and use the best critical analysis when it comes to looking at fringe topics. I'm interested in these things because I do believe that some of what science and the mainstream media refuses to acknowledge as valid are, in fact, really happening. For example, there's a ton of evidence for high velocity UFOs in the form of radar data, photographic evidence and eyewitness reports. I myself have had 3 instances where I've seen something strange in the skies, and on one of those occasions there's no logical alternative for what I saw except that it's outside the realm of what's possible in current aviation technology. That said, it doesn't prove that there are Greys behind the steering wheel, or that the gov't struck a deal with these guys and they all play poker underneath the desert sands surrounding Dulce, NM. But, the strength oh the UFO evidence that can be analysed and taken as data helps bolster the claims of others whose stories cannot be proven as of yet.

To date there hasn't been any strong evidence that I've seen of a chemtrail black ops program going on. Believing that one contrail looks different from a chemtrail isn't good enough evidence; there needs to be something stronger than that. If there really is a chemtrail program and it's as widespread as the believers claim, then it should be possible to find out what planes are creating them, where they're landing, who is operating them and what they are releasing.

Until that kind of evidence surfaces, I remain skeptical of the whole sinister chemtrail agenda doctrine.

Sincerely.

-- That guy in Vancouver that still needs to register an identity on here

Today (thursday), I saw lots of criss cross in sky (anyone else) and about 7:20 pm in Kits I saw a white jet fly from nw to se leaving very long white plume that stayed. Within ten minutes of seeing that plane, I saw three other planes climbing sw to ne obviously climbing after takeoff from airport over Georgia Straight.

I think they were spraying all night long and made the sky criss cross semi cloudy today.

You'll see me handing out little flyers in downtown Van over the weekend just asking others if they saw it too.

Cloud seeding and other weather modification efforts are in Senate Bill 517 introduced by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in March 2005 and taking effect on Oct. 1, 2005 for $10 million/year through 2014 for starters.

That is what the planes drawing huge X's and lines in the sky are doing. Un-announced cloud-seeding which flooded California this past winter and will again.

And as we become accustomed to the Fed overhead making the weather, yes, someone could slip a little bio-nasty in to create a quarantine zone where, oh..say, some street demonstrations and campuses are in 'unrest.' Wouldn't want that to spread around the country if you're working a permanent war.

There is established in the Department of Commerce the Weather Modification Advisory and Research Board.

(b) MEMBERSHIP-

(1) IN GENERAL- The Board shall consist of 11 members appointed by the Secretary of Commerce, of whom--

(A) at least 1 shall be a representative of the American Meteorological Society;

(B) at least 1 shall be a representative of the American Society of Civil Engineers;

(C) at least 1 shall be a representative of the National Academy of Sciences;

(D) at least 1 shall be a representative of the National Center for Atmospheric Research of the National Science Foundation;

(E) at least 2 shall be representatives of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the Department of Commerce;

(F) at least 1 shall be a representative of institutions of higher education or research institutes; and

(G) at least 1 shall be a representative of a State that is currently supporting operational weather modification projects.

(2) TENURE- A member of the Board serves at the pleasure of the Secretary of Commerce. >snip<FUNDING.

(a) IN GENERAL- There is established within the Treasury of the United States the Weather Modification Research and Development Fund, which shall consist of amounts appropriated pursuant to subsection (b) or received by the Board under subsection (c).

(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS- There is authorized to be appropriated to the Board for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this Act $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2005 through 2014. Any sums appropriated under this subsection shall remain available, without fiscal year limitation, until expended.

(c) GIFTS- The Board may accept, use, and dispose of gifts or donations of services or property.

SEC. 9. EFFECTIVE DATE.

This Act shall take effect on October 1, 2005. ---------------------------

For all those concerned about government run weather-control or mind control. If you're really worried about the potentialy disasterous side-effects of rapid, human-induced climate change, why not stop driving your car or using electricity or products produced using fossil fuels? Or why not turn off your TV and radio and stop watching mainstream movies? I've said this before, and I don't exclude myself, but it's a pretty safe bet that if you're reading this, you're complicit. We fool ourselves to think that we can have our cake, and eat it too. Then we're surprised when it turns out to be a big shit sandwich.

It's amazing how stories like this can be both horrifying and fascinating. Wether Mr. Evangelista was actually channeling the word of God or not, it certainly seems that he believed he was. We instictively call him 'Crazy', but what makes him any crazier than John the Revelator, or Bush the Decider?

Of course, the most unsettling and attractive aspect of the story is the fact that it remains unexplained. When left to fill in the blanks, especially in stories already as dark and mysterious as this one, our immaginations can always be counted on to pick the most terrifying option that fits the frame of the story. Perhaps that's why we love to pin the blame on SOMEONE, regardless of who. Without the illusion of closure, it's a lot tougher to move on and pretend that everything's gonna be OK, now that the guilty have been punished.

I am the first anon from Vancouver. Sorry for unloading that off-topic white jet and plumes on the blog which appeared to derail more than one of us from the topic at hand. Your post set off a flurry of indignation within me and the white jets were one of them. Specifically it was your comment about the Evangelista family slaughter going unsolved,

"It was the worst mass murder in Detroit's history. Theft was not a motive; valuables were untouched. And it remains unsolved today."

that made me think of another unsolved mystery, the in-our-face painting of the sky with god knows what, which I couldn't help but notice as I worked, and pointed out to others. The first time, they said "uh-huh whatever". The second time, they all went "what the.." and then my eyes were burning at lunch when I went out, and everyone just going about their business as if it wasn't happening. To answer questions: no didn't see the plane turn around so it couldve been a diff plane. They all looked the same. The other planes were not making these trails.

But, really, I apologize for hijacking the post. I noted the last paragraph,

"It's very late and I haven't actually reached the point of this post. But I'm too tired to make much sense to carry on right now, so I'm afraid I'll need to wrap this up later."

and imagined you, bedraggled, seeing the off-topic posts, and dejectedly throwing your arms up in the air, knocking your Vic 20 off the desk and mumbling about no one giving a damn :/

But hey Jeff, on the bright side, if your objective is to provoke reaction (even off topic), then "misery accomplished"!

I suggest that, in all likelihood, the murders were a matter of in-cult competition. Mormon sub-cults in Utah have had occurences like this on a number of occasions. Competing 'prophets' will get a 'revelation' from God that one of their rivals is of the devil, and so needs to die, and so it befalls them, as god's chosen, to perform the service of holy hitman. Ritual aspects of the slayings can be attributed to the making of a spiritual statement. Deranged schizo's are always so sure of what they see themselves as. Hmmm, Bush the Decider.

Anonymous one,"step away from the window go back to sleep,pay no mind to the rabble"Perfect Circle.Folks I personaly know two people inside the aviation biz,one flys 757's for a living,the other my cousin,works for the TSA.When I asked them about contrails they both just laughed,and it wasn't because it's funny.Both agreed something has changed in these contrails but they said they weren't coming from regular commercial planes.More people know that something is going on,but they can't risk their lifes coming out alone to face the big guys.Oh,did anyone happen to catch the opening of American Idol the other night? If I didn't know any better I would say someone was fucken with the framing to make it look like a thousand points of light in the back ground and a few angles of the singers looked like a ufo was hovering over them,if you can find a video check it out,later.

We sometimes tend to overlook the fact that "evil" is an entirely artificial and man-made concept.

A "belief", if you will, that is only validated and made real by the existence of other equally artificial "beliefs" that only seemingly support or suggest it's presence of existence.

What we usually call "evil" has no genuine counterpart or place in the natural order of the world or the co-operative and protective framework by which nature and all life itself exists.

So to what can we atribute it's existence if not simply our own powers of imagination and our desire and ability to make that which we imagine "real" for ourselves, regardless, or perhaps simply because of just how frightening we may find it?

If we are to properly examine any "belief" in evil, including and especially our own, we should also consider all the conventions or institutions that we have devised to assess the guilt or punishment most have also come to "believe" it deserves.

To at least ask ourselves if that relationship isn't more integral than we're truly willing to admit?

Now many, if not most, harbour some belief that without guilt or punishment there could, in fact, be no self-discipline of any kind and our world would simply run amok...hmmm?

It is running quite amok now - not despite any ideas of guilt and punishment but largely because of them.

The more we accept and adopt a perspective that is completely outside of nature the more we create the kind of repression and limitations that distort human thinking, emotions, and actions into precisely these very avenues of expression.

To have any real understanding of what evil actually is, we must start by examining how it begins in the eye of the beholder...

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Evil is, indeed, a sticky wicket. I'm also largely of the opinion that there is no such thing as 'Evil', at least not in a cosmic, Satanic sense. That doesn't, however, mean that there isn't such a thing as deliberately causing Trauma, either physical or psychological (if that's even a meaningful distinction), and this is, I suspect, what most people mean when they speak of evil.

"For all those concerned about government run weather-control or mind control. If you're really worried about the potentialy disasterous side-effects of rapid, human-induced climate change, why not stop driving your car."

I did. I donated my car aging car about six years ago and I take public transpo everywhere.

"Or why not turn off your TV and radio."

I have never owned a TV, and I don't have one where I live, and I don't watch it, except when there's one turned on in someone's apartment, or in the laundromat, etc.

And you know what? I AM STILL COMPLICIT, and will be forever, no matter how hermitlike I might make myself!

I have in the past, had the viewpoint that I'm one of the special good people, and that by disconnecting from the mainstream I could become un-complicit. (And that would make me even MORE better-than-other-people than I already was, and SPECIAL!)

Through some personal experiences that at the time I interpreted as disasters, I found that I no longer wish to look at life in that way, and now I find that I'm grateful that my living situation doesn't require me to own a car, and I'm glad that not owning a car IS one tiny thing that's helpful for the planet, and I'm totally clear that not watching TV is healthy for me (and I believe that anybody will see the same thing for themselves, if they go for, say, 30 days without watching ANY TV at all, and then turn it on again to find out how almost-physically painful TV is).

At first, it seemed to have the markings of ritualistic murder, but the deaths of two young Long Beach women at a rustic Big Sur resort turned out to be suicide, authorities said Monday.

Long before they drove up the California coast, Abigail Tapia, 27, and Jacqueline Toves, 26, had planned to kill themselves, Monterey County Sheriff-Coroner Mike Kanalakis said.

They wrote goodbye letters to family members and then completed a long-planned suicide pact late last week in a room with a view of the Pacific Ocean, Kanalakis said. "Both young ladies were feeling despair in their lives and were clearly upset," Kanalakis told reporters Monday afternoon outside his office.

As to why the women were found bound with tape and rope, with garbage bags fastened tightly over their heads, and why Toves was wearing a Kabuki-style mask, Kanalakis said, "It's very, very difficult to understand what goes through someone's mind when they are determined to kill themselves. We are at a loss to explain it."

sorry--another rabbittrail, I know, but did anyone see the new Zarqawi video in full? he looks drugged, like he could fall asleep any minute reading his rambling script to two cameras, rarely engaging either eye-to-eye (when he's done, he visibly drops his head with exhaustion). then he sits with some fully disguised men (with lily-white hands, oddly) surrounded by American M-16s as they show off some poorly designed, homemade rockets on their laptop. later, he walks out into the desert in his white, New Balance tennis shoes to fire off some rounds on another American machine gun that he can't even operate well...and you ask yourself: THIS is the guy leading the insurgency?!

You can thank Harper and company for signing up the new NORAD deal the next time they blatantly chemtrail your neighbourhood. Chemtrails are now legal.. Get used to it. They aren't hiding behind clouds anymore.

re: ritual murders... they are sometimes part of initiation into satanic cults. We had one in Rochester MN a few years back. I forget the kids name but in his notebook he called himself :Justin Nicklous Time. Took an ax and hacked his parents and a sibling into little bits. It was rumored that there was a long line of offical looking cars at seen leaving the seen during the night of the murders. They were supposedly local police and polititians. If you are a cult, it's best to get control of the local authorities. It makes things so much more convient wouldn't you say?

I appreciate your response. I must admit that I sounded a bit holier-than-thou in that post of mine, though that wasn't my intention. I certainly don't have any ilusions of being one of the 'good' people. While I don't currently watch any TV (except when situationaly unavoidable), I still drive a gas-powered car, listen to corperate radio, and watch hollywood movies. Of course, stopping those activities wouldn't make me better than anyone else. I could be a hermit and still be a complete bastard.

The acidity of my tone comes most from the fact that I'm personaly torn regarding my current level of participation in these aspects of our culture that I consider to provide very little benefit, and cause a great deal of harm. I know that there's a balance to be struck, and peace to be made within myself, but I have yet to reach the fulcrum.

So someone(s) obviously did not want the world to know that which Evangelista the evangelist wrote about. Such is the risk those who dare tell secrets do take. Was he ignorant of these risks? Not very likely.

The more recent (cold) case of a young couple's marcabe sacrificial murder occured on a beach not far from the governing elite's Satanic sancutuary that is Boheminan Grove. We have Alex Jones to thank for showing the world that 'rumors' of (supposedly mock) human sacrifice happening there are indeed true... that is if even video evidence can be believed anymore.

Jenner... a seemingly serene, misty little town built on the side of a cliff where the Russian river meets the Pacific. Those who've been there know all too well that it's a scene befitting a Wes Craven or a Steven King novel. It does not surprize that evil people would congregate there.

History is filled with Satanic scrifice murders most of which go unsolved. Like the flock of sheep who watch in horror as the wolf makes a meal of the slow or infirm, We quickly choose to forget.

Be careful of blaming yourself so much Luposapien, for not practicing what you preach. I know many of us have the same problem, trying to "do my part" by setting an example, etc.

We are all in the culture, we have all been brainwashed since birth, and there is nothing to be gained by trying to trash it all now after learning that most of it has been bullshit from the beginning.

I do my little bit too to save fuel but I still drive to work and I heat a big house for two people. The option of running to the woods doesn't appeal because I am sixty years old and it wouldn't do much to solve the global warming and all that anyway. I'd have to burn wood!

The shit is finally beginning to hit the fan for bushco; I feel blessed to be here to witness whatever happens after that. Somehow I think it will be a big and glorious event for our species, and even if it kills me I am alive now to be part of it.

Thanks for the encouragement, Rapt. It certainly does seem that things are biggining to unravel for the Bush regime. Hopefully it goes deep enough this time round to bring about more than just a change of cast portraying the same worn-out roles, as frightening as the uncertainty of real change is.

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Regarding luposapien's comments in relation to the existence of 'evil':

I think you are spot on. I DO believe that the nature of the potentially 'useful' effects of trauma have been recognized, probably for a LONG time, by those who wish to control others for their own purposes.

In the past I used to have a very 'cultural relativist' point of view regarding certain practices, but I've grown up since then. Opened my eyes, as it were. And if anything approaches actual evil, it's those who traumatize others for the purposes of control.

By the way, I've not ever posted before here, but I just wanted to say that I really love your blog, Jeff. Many have said it before, but you are doing something important and challenging, here, and I applaud it. Just wanted to say thanks, basically.

Jealousy can also be a reason for these weird murders. You have it good. I have it bad. KILL. Boozing and drug use come to mind.

When I was a teenager I thought it funny to purchase a book to summon a demon on an unsuspecting friend. A friend of mine and I entered an occult bookstore in search of this book. A long haired man who worked there tried to discourage me from doing this. He talked to me for about 10 minutes or so about the seriousness of demon conjuring. He handed me a book entitled "At The Feet Of The Master." This is an Hindu? book about the paths in life that lead to peace and harmony. Since he lectured and made it awkward for me to buy this book I stole the Necronomicon by Lovecraft.

My point is that whomever was influencing me in my youth when set on doing nastiness I tried my best to get it done. It's like no one was going to stop me. I wasn't anybody unless I was doing no good. Living for pleasure was no good. Smoking pot, drinking, and doing all kinds of mischievous things. When I lived this life my closest friends turned out to be a total hassle. We turned on each other, got into trouble with the law, got harassed by other ruffians, and had hardly any respect for each other except when getting intoxicated was the goal of the day. Which it always was.

I look at these killings and see a person or group wanting to do nasty things. Nobody is going to stop them. If things are too much of a hassle. If people do not fit in with their amoral viewpoints they are savagely killed. Are you familiar with the murder of Madeline Murray O'Hare? The founding atheist of the USA Atheist Organization. She, her husband, and son were hacked into little pieces by a fellow atheist who was shamed by her.

Maybe these thugs in the woods types are upset that people don't like it when others kill. You don't like it when people kill. DIE. Or you don't appreciate amoral behavior. You should be killed. It's safer to fit in with their principles since you would not be considered an outsider and therefore no longer a threat to them.

We know that being righteous is bold. Bold As Love by Jimi Hendrix. Being able to appreciate greatness takes boldness. When we lose the ability to revere greatness I think we fail in our endeavor to be. We lose ourself in giddy self centered fusseries. We don't need to be bold while giggling. I think these killers deep down are too busy giggling to appreciate the wonders that life has to offer. They can only worship what they feel in their bellies and when angered and killing they are worshipping their maker.

If a six turns out to be nine. I don't mind. I don't mind. If all the hippies cut off all their hair. I don't care. I don't care.

Whenever a feeling of aversion comes into the heart of a good soul,
it's not without significance.
Consider that intuitive wisdom to be a Divine attribute,
not a vain suspicion:
the light of the heart has apprehendedintuitively from the Universal Tablet. - Rumi